Less than 1% of startups survives. Why?
Category: *Makers
6 Tomorrow’s Inspiring Business Talents
Six inspiring young entrepreneurs have overcome fierce competition to impress the country’s business leaders with their innovation and business capability and have been selected by NEF Fast Track, the UK’s leading entrepreneur development programme, for the prestigious David Pearl Pitch Prize & CVC Young Innovators award.
When Blockchain Becomes an Open Innovation Platform
A brand-new project promises to revolutionize the industry by creating scale for the benefit of the customer and the industry alike.
Kissed by the Wind: Q&A With Ripple
Ripple is a clean energy ownership platform with an aim to enable people to own new, large scale wind farms and have the clean, low cost, stable priced power they produce supplied to their homes. We met with them in the aftermath of their equity crowdfunding campaign to find out more about their project.
Vodafone Launches the Fourth Round of its Global Social Impact Accelerator to Empower Women in Tech
Partners are the Impact Hub Berlin and the Social Entrepreneurship Akademie.
Real Betis Scores For Climate Action, Becomes the First Top-Tier-Team To Achive a Climate-Neutral Status
Spanish side Real Betis has joined the Climate Neutral Now Initiative of UN Climate Change.
Dolcevita
Q&A with the founders of the ethical fashion brand Pantera Bianca, now live on Kickstarter.
This Startup Has Successfully Crowdfunded €6 Million for African Energy Access
The firm is using the money to install pay-as-you-go solar home systems across Kenya, Rwanda, Togo, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Mali, Senegal and Guinea.
This Brewery is Crowdfunding to Bring Douglas McMaster’s Zero-Waste Restaurant Concept to East London
CRATE Brewery aims to raise £500,000.
Cloning Hairs
This UK biotech startup is working to make hair loss history.
University of Bath Supports Students To Crowdfund
Are you in need of funding? Thinking about crowdfunding for your club, project or society? Are you in need of funding? Thinking about crowdfunding for your club, project or society? Then Bath’s crowdfunding site can help you, a blog states.
Feeding Social Change
How a recent equity crowdfunding campaign can pave the way for impact crowdfunding.
Unchained
How two friends are confronting inequality in film by using crowdfunding.
Global Girls Alliance
Why Michelle Obama partnered with crowdfunding platform GoFundMe.
Making Cities Greener
Friends of the Earth and Crowdfunder team up to make communities #10xGreener.
Creating Meaning
Enterprising immigrants are boosting prosperity in the UK, study reveals.
The Age of The Social Entrepreneur
Millennial business owners are increasingly motivated by social goals, a new survey suggests.
Plastic Oceans
We live in the plasticene. While media, impact entrepreneurs and alternative finance take action, researchers call for additional scientific evidence to push down on politics.
Why the Future in Crowdfunding is Female
While getting just 1.3% of venture capital financing, crowdfunding represents a sounding founding options for female-led firms.
In Other Words
To celebrate the #NationalWritingDay, Oliver* made up a short list of some of our favourite crowdfunding pitch videos.
